Justification of geometrical optics for non-convex obstacles

DOI10.1016/0022-247X(81)90111-6zbMath0463.35047MaRDI QIDQ1153495

Hans-Dieter Alber

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

wave equationHelmholtz equationparametrixsingularities of solutionsFourier transformationprogressing wave expansionstransversal reflection at the boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Wave equation (35L05) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05)

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